In response to a MEMRI blog posting – translated by MEMRI from the Saudi daily Al-Watan – titled "Afghan Source: The U.S. Has Offered the Taliban Control in Return for Quiet" and dated November 22, 2009, a U.S. State Department spokesperson said, "There is no truth to the reports [published by Al-Watan] that the U.S. Embassy is engaging in secret talks with elements of the Taliban. Our position on the inclusion of Taliban and other fighters into Afghan society remains unchanged: We support the efforts of the Government of the Islamic Republic of Afghan to reintegrate fighters and other disaffected individuals into society, under the Afghan constitution. This process must be Afghan-led."
Blog Details
U.S. State Department Denies 'Al-Watan' Report
Share:
Tag Cloud
Recent MEMRI Blog Posts
-
Indian Writer B. Raman Blames U.S. Policy for Militant Activities in China's Xinjiang Province, Says: 'The Jamaat-e-Islami of Pakistan Contributes Money Regularly to the ETIM And Helps Many Uighur Students in Pakistan'
Friday, February 10, 2012
-
Urdu Daily: Chinese Military Taking Over Gilgit Baltistan, Pakistan Considering Proposal to Lease the Disputed Region to China for 50 Years
Friday, February 10, 2012
-
Egyptian Cleric Mazen Sirsawi in Favor of Killing Apostates: 'Beheading Them Should Be Easier than Cutting the Buttons off Their Shirts'; 'If [the Holocaust] Really Happened, [the Jews] Deserved it'; 'The People of Truth Should Lie in Wait for the People
Friday, February 10, 2012
-
Second-Tier Al-Qaeda Activists Embrace Twitter for Online Jihad: The Case of the Ansarullah Blog
Thursday, February 9, 2012
-
Muslim Clerics: Cyber Warfare against Israel Is a Form of Jihad
Thursday, February 9, 2012
-
British Islamist Anjem Choudary Launches 'Shariah for India,' Vows to Demolish Hindu Temples and Bollywood; Muslims Urged to Join In New Delhi March Next Month Marking 88th Anniversary of the End of Islamic Caliphate
Thursday, February 9, 2012
-
Egyptian Cleric Dr. Sallah Sultan, Founder of the Ohio-Based American Center for Islamic Research, Calls On Young People to Engage In Sports in Preparation for Jihad to Liberate Al-Aqsa Mosque
Thursday, February 9, 2012
-
Global March to Jerusalem: Speakers at Jamaat-e-Islami Pakistan Conference Claim That Mosques in Jerusalem and Medina are 'Under Direct Threat of Jewish Designs'
Thursday, February 9, 2012
-
Egyptian TV Debate On Israeli Products' 'Invasion' of Sinai: Jeans from Israel Contained Secret Magnets Causing Infertility
Thursday, February 9, 2012
-
Al-Qaeda Leader Ayman Al-Zawahiri Announces Somali Al-Shabab Al-Mujahideen Officially Joined Al-Qaeda
Thursday, February 9, 2012
Headlines
Salafi Jihadi Sheikh Hussein Bin Mahmud: Gaza Does Not Want Freedom Flotillas with Blonde Women – It Wants Black Islamic Banners of Jihad; Hitler Left Some Jews Alive So the World Could See Why He Killed the Rest; 'Gaza… Is Thirsty and Wants to Drink the Blood of the Sons of Apes and Pigs', - Special Dispatch Series - No. 2997- June 3, 2010
Palestinians: Nobody Is Authorized to Waive the Right of Return - Special Dispatch Series - No. 2995 - June 3, 2010
Arab Media Reports on Flotilla Participants: Writing Wills, Preparing for Martyrdom, Determined to Reach Gaza or Die - Special Dispatch Series - No. 2990- June 1, 2010
Muslim French Intellectuals Criticize Obama's Statement on the Hijab - Special Dispatch Series - No. 2985 - May 31, 2010
Iraqi Columnist in Arab Liberal Online Daily Elaph: The Hostile and Provocative Name Chosen for the Planned Ground Zero Cordoba Mosque Symbolizes Dreams of Expansion and Invasion of the Territory of the Other - Special Dispatch Series - No. 2981- May 27, 2010
MEMRI TV Featured Clips
-
Egyptian Salafi MP Mamdouh Ismail Causes Stir by C...February 7, 2012 -
Egyptian Cleric Mazen Sirsawi in Favor of Killing ...September 4, 2011 -
Sunni Scholar Sheik Yousuf Al-Qaradhawi Calls to B...February 5, 2012 -
Egyptian TV Debate on the "Invasion" of ...February 1, 2012 -
Egyptian TV Host Sheik Khaled Abdallah Insinuates ...February 3, 2011
About The MEMRI Blog
The Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI) Blog features brief news items from Arabic-, Farsi-, Urdu-, Pashtu- and Turkish-language news media sources.
